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Agriculture Secretary: Ann Veneman, former California Agriculture Director, and previously served in Agriculture under G.H.W. Bush's administration. She also served on the board of directors for Calgene Inc., a genetically-altered food company. Nebraska Gov. Mike Johanns has been nominated to succeed Veneman.  Gov. Johanns also serves as co-chairman for the Western Governors' Association on drought issues. In the past, he has chaired the National Governors' Association Committee on Economic Development and Commerce. As Nebraska's Governor, he has led a number of delegations of government, business and agriculture leaders on trade missions throughout Asia and South America.  Prior to becoming Governor, he served two terms as Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska. Earlier in his career, Governor Johanns was a partner in the law firm of Nelson, Johanns, Morris, Holdeman and Titus. He also clerked for the Honorable Hale McCown at the Nebraska Supreme Court.  Johanns had been considered a possible challenger to Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson in 2006. Deputy Secretary of Agriculture: James R. Moseley, president of a farm in Clarks Hill, IN.  He served as an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture 1990-1992 and was Agriculture Advisor to the Administrator of EPA 1989-1990. Assistant Secretary for Administration: Lou Gallegos, Chief of Staff to Governor Gary Johnson of New Mexico and served as the Secretary of the New Mexico Human Services Department.  In 1989 he was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Policy Management and Budget. Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services: Eric M. Bost.  This job oversees the Food Stamp Program.  Bost was the Commissioner and CEO of the Texas Department of Human Services where he served since 1997 and was previously the Deputy Director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security.  He was the Director and Administrator of the Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities Administration at the U.S. Department of Human Services, 1992-1993.  Mr. Bost holds a B.A. degree in psychology from the U. of North Carolina and an M.A. degree in special education from the U. of South Florida. Under Secretary for Rural Development: Tom C. Dorr, CEO and President of Dorr's Pine Grove Farm, a 3000-acre corn and soybean farm in Marcus, IA. Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agriculture Services. J.B. Penn, Senior V.P. of Sparks Companies, Inc., and was previously president and co-founder of Economic Perspectives, a consulting company.  He served in a variety of positions at the Dept. of Agriculture 1967-1981, excluding one year as a Senior Staff Economist on the President's Council of Economic Advisors 1977-1978. Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs: Bill Hawks, Managing Partner of Hawks Farming, a farm, and is also the owner of DeSoto East, Inc., a residential development company.  He served in the Mississippi Senate 1994-1999 and is a veteran of the National Guard. Under Secretary for Research, Education and Economics: Joseph J. Jen, Dean of the College of Agriculture at California Polytechnic State U. and was previously the Division Chairman and Department Head of the Division of Food Science and Technology at the University of Georgia. Jen is a graduate of Taiwan University, received a Master's degree from Washington State U., a Ph.D. from Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Southern Illinois U. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture for Congressional Relations: Mary Kirtley Waters, Senior Director and Legislative Counsel for ConAgra Foods where she has served since 1986.  Before ConAgra, she served as a Legislative Assistant for Rep. Larry J. Hopkins 1984-1986. Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights: Vernon Bernard Parker, of Arizona, who has served as the Interim Senior Pastor at the Calvary Church of the Valley in Paradise Valley, AZ, 2001-2002.  Before becoming a pastor, he was the president and CEO of the international nutritional supplement company, BelSante International LLC. Previous government service includes an appointment as Special Assistant to the President from 1992-1993. Prior to working in the White House, Mr. Parker served as General Counsel in the OPM. Graduate of Cal State, Long Beach, law degree from Georgetown U.

Bureau of Justice Statistics - Director: Lawrence A. Greenfeld, of Maryland.

CIA Director: Gen. Michael V. Hayden (A predecessor, George Tenent hinted at limiting use of internet to only those the government approves).  Air Force General Hayden faced opposition from Republicans and Democrats due to the danger of having a military officer heading a civilian spy agency. As a former director of the National Security Agency, Hayden had a leading role in developing Bush's domestic surveillance program. Deputy Director: John E. McLaughlin Executive Director of the CIA: A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, former head of Alex. Brown & Co., an investment bank in Baltimore, MD.  He joined the CIA three years ago as a counselor to Tenet. Before that, he helped engineer the $2.5 billion merger of Alex. Brown and Bankers Trust New York Corp. "Krongard has a fondness for extreme military-style activities. Even as a banking executive, he trained with police SWAT teams for recreation and worked out with a kung fu master." General Counsel: Scott Muller, a former N.Y. federal prosecutor, and a Board Member of the Center for Community Interest for four years. Director of the Office of Public Affairs: Mark Mansfield. National Intelligence Council Chairman: Ambassador Robert L. Hutchings, previously Assistant Dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, where he also taught international politics. Earlier, he was a Fellow and Director of International Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He was Director for European Affairs with the National Security Council, 1989-92, and Special Adviser to the Secretary of State 1992-1993. He also served two tours in the NIC—as Director of its Analytic Group and earlier as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Europe. Ambassador Hutchings serves on the editorial board of the journal International Politics, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  Vice Chairman: David Gordon, previously Director of CIA's Office of Transnational Issues (OTI).  He was appointed in 1998 as National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues on the NIC. In the 1980s, Dr. Gordon pursued an academic career at the University of Michigan and Michigan State University. Currently, Dr. Gordon is an adjunct professor at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has also taught at the College of William and Mary, Princeton University, and the University of Nairobi. Vice Chairman for Evaluation: Dr. Mark M. Lowenthal, the Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production.  Dr. Lowenthal returned to the government in 2002, initially serving as Counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence.  Between 1997 and 2002, Dr. Lowenthal served in the private sector, working as a consultant to government and industry clients on intelligence issues, most recently with SRA International.  He was the staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 104th Congress (1995-97), where he directed the committee’s study on the future of the Intelligence Community, IC21. He also served in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR).  B.A. from Brooklyn College and his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He is an Adjunct Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He also serves as the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee for AFCEA, formerly the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association.  Director, Strategic Plans and Outreach: Craig R. Gralley, Mr. Gralley spent the first decade of his career with the CIA as an analyst on technical capabilities and operations of foreign ballistic missile and space systems. During this period, he also served with the NSA, where he analyzed foreign political and economic developments. Subsequently, Mr. Gralley headed the Director’s Speeches and Appearances Staff, where he served as Principal Speechwriter for DCIs Webster, Gates, and briefly, for DCI Woolsey. Mr. Gralley served in the NIC previously as a Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Latin America (acting) and within the NIC Analytic Group. Director, Analysis and Production Staff: Mathew J. Burrows, who joined the CIA in 1986 after receiving a Ph.D. in European history from Cambridge University in England. He has served as a DI (Directorate of Intelligence) analyst covering Western Europe, including the development of European institutions such as the European Union. He was the holder in 1998-99 of the Intelligence Community Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in New York. He also was special assistant to the US UN Ambassador, Richard Holbrooke, 1999-2001. In 2001-2002, he was Deputy National Security Advisor to the Treasury Secretary. He is a member of the DI's Senior Analyst Service. Special Advisor: Enid C. B. Schoettle, From 1996-1997 she was Chief of the Advocacy and External Relations Unit of the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs. From 1993-1996 she served on the National Intelligence Council as the National Intelligence Officer for Global and Multilateral Issues. From 1991-1993 she was Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) for international organizations and law. From 1976-1991 she was on the staff of the Ford Foundation, serving as Director of Ford’s International Affairs Program from 1981-1991. Prior to that, she was on the faculties of political science at the University of Minnesota and Swarthmore College. National Intelligence Officer for Africa: Robert G. Houdek, who joined the NIC as National Intelligence Officer for Africa in October 1997 after serving as an adviser to the Chief of Staff of the Agency for International Development (AID) on the President's Greater Horn of Africa Initiative and as the AID negotiator on a Disaster Assistance Response Team in eastern Zaire. Ambassador Houdek was a Foreign Service officer from 1962-1996. Among his many assignments, he served as Ambassador to Eritrea (1993-96), Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs (1991-93), Chief of Mission in the US Embassy in Ethiopia (1988-91), Ambassador to Uganda (1985-88), Deputy Chief of Mission in the US Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya (1989-84), and Deputy Director of the Office of West African Affairs. He also was on the White House staff 1969-1971 as a Special Assistant to then National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger.  He is a member of the African Studies Association, the Eritrean Studies Association, and the American Foreign Service Association, where he served on the Board of Directors. National Intelligence Officer for East Asia: James J. Shinn, After serving in the East Asia Bureau of the State Department, he worked for several high-tech firms in Silicon Valley. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and previously he was Senior Fellow for Asia at the  CFR in New York, he returned to academia, teaching courses in technology and foreign policy at Princeton and Georgetown. BA Princeton, MBA Harvard, PhD from Princeton. National Intelligence Officer for Economics and Global Issues: William A. Anderson, previously the President's Daily Brief and Senior Executive Briefer for the Secretary and Deputy Secretary of State. He joined CIA in 1986 and has held a variety of analytical and managerial positions, working European, Latin American, and global issues. He previously led the Strategic Assessments Group and the Economic Security Group in the Directorate of Intelligence and served an overseas tour for the Agency in the mid-1990s.  Ph.D. in Economics at Cornell, B.A. from Yale. National Intelligence Officer for Europe: Richard D. Kauzlarich, formerly Director of the Special Initiative on the Muslim World at the United States Institute of Peace. Kauzlarich joined the Institute in Spring 2002 after a 32-year career in the Foreign Service. He served as United States Ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1997-99 and to Azerbaijan in 1994-97. He was Senior Deputy to the Secretary of State’s and the President’s Special Representative to the Newly Independent States 1993-94. He was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau of European Affairs 1991-93. He also was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs in 1984-86 and as Deputy Director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff in 1986-89. National Intelligence Officer for Intelligence Assurance: Lawrence K. Gershwin, Mr. Gershwin became the National Intelligence Officer for Intelligence Assurance in April 2004 after serving as the NIO for Science and Technology from 1994 to 2004 and as the National Intelligence Officer for Strategic Programs from 1981 to 1994. Previously, he served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation (1979-81) and worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses (1972-75) and the Rand Corporation (1975-79). He served as a postdoctoral associate at Columbia and Stanford Universities.  Ph.D. in physics from the U. California, Berkeley, B.S. in physics from the CIT. National Intelligence Officer for Latin America: Fulton Armstrong, previously Chief of Staff of the DCI Crime and Narcotics Center (CNC). Prior to that, he served two terms as a Director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council (1995-97 and 1998-99) and as Deputy NIO for Latin America (1997-98). In 1980 he was Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary to US Rep. Jim Leach. In 1984-95, he served as analyst, political-economic officer, and manager specializing in Latin America in the both the intelligence and policy communities.  National Intelligence Officer for Military Issues: Major General John R. Landry, USA (Ret.), before joining the NIC, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Guard/Reserve Affairs, Office of the Secretary of Defense. In 1989, he was assigned as Chief of Staff, VII Corp, US Army, Europe, a position he held during Operation DESERT STORM. General Landry also was assigned to armored cavalry units in Europe and Vietnam. He was an Assistant to SACEUR, commanded an Army Cavalry Squadron in Europe and an Armored Brigade in the 4th Division at Fort Carson, and later served as Chief of Strategic Plans and Policy on the Army Staff. General Landry earned an M.P.A. at Harvard's Kennedy School of Govt, taught at West Point, and graduated from the National War College and West Point. National Intelligence Officer for Near East and South Asia: Paul R. Pillar, Mr. Pillar was appointed National Intelligence Officer for the Near East and South Asia in October 2000 upon returning to the Intelligence Community from the Brookings Institution, where he was a Federal Executive Fellow. He joined CIA in 1977 and has served in a variety of analytical and managerial positions, including as chief of analytic units covering portions of the Near East, the Persian Gulf, and South Asia. He previously served in the NIC as one of the original members of its Analytic Group. He has been Executive Assistant to CIA's Deputy Director for Intelligence and Executive Assistant to DCI William Webster. He headed the Assessments and Information Group of the DCI Counterterrorist Center and from 1997 to 1999 was deputy chief of the center. Mr. Pillar is a retired officer in the US Army Reserve and served on active duty in 1971-1973, including a tour of duty in Vietnam. Mr. Pillar received an A.B. from Dartmouth, a B.Phil. from Oxford, and an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton.  National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia: Angela E. Stent, who is on leave from Georgetown U., where she is Professor of Government and Foreign Service and served as Director of the Center for Eurasian, Russian and East European Studies. From 1999-2001, she served on the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State. Dr. Stent is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Soviet and Russian foreign policy, US-Russian relations and East-West economic ties. She is on the editorial boards of The Journal of Cold War Studies and Internationale Politik. She also has served on the boards of the US-Russia Business Forum and Women In International Security. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  B.A. from Cambridge, MSc. from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard. National Intelligence Officer for Transnational Threats: David B. Low.  He returned to the National Intelligence Council where he previously served 1983-1985 as National Intelligence Officer for Proliferation and, concurrently, for International Economics. Among other activities during that time, he was a member of the Senior Interdepartmental Group on International Economic Policy, chaired by the Treasury Secretary. Much of Mr. Low's career has been in national and international business. Most recently, he has been a business and financial consultant to real estate and telecom companies. From 1985 to 1995 he was chief financial officer and later president of a real estate management company.  He spent four years at the Export-Import Bank of the United States, as Special Assistant to the Chairman and as Counsel. From 1968-1972 he practiced corporate and securities law at a Wall Street law firm.  A.B. in Chemistry from Princeton, J.D. from U. VA Law. National Intelligence Officer for Warning: Kenneth L. Knight, Jr., a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive with over 25 years of experience at the national, departmental, and theater intelligence echelons and has served in a range of intelligence disciplines in both joint and allied assignments. As the Chief of DIA's Defense Warning Office (2002-2004), and as the Defense Intelligence Officer for Global Trends (1992-2002), Mr. Knight managed military intelligence support to OSD and Joint Staff consumers involved in strategy, doctrine, force structure, and weapons development processes. Prior to these assignments, Mr. Knight served as the Senior Executive Analyst on the Army Staff, where he managed Army involvement in the National Intelligence production process and represented the Army on the Military Intelligence and National Foreign Intelligence Boards. As Deputy National Intelligence Officer for General Purpose Forces on the National Intelligence Council (1993-1995), Mr. Knight directed the planning and production of interagency National Intelligence Estimates on foreign conventional military trends and capabilities. Prior to that, Mr. Knight was the Army's Deputy Director of Foreign Intelligence, where he oversaw the analytic content and managed the planning and execution of the Army Staff's global intelligence production effort. Before that, Mr. Knight spent five years in Europe analyzing Warsaw Pact political and military developments for the US European Command, the US Army Europe, and NATO. He has also served as the Chief of the Army's European Warning Center and as an analyst for DIA, the Army Staff, and the US Navy. National Intelligence Officer for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation: Robert D Walpole, previously served from March 1998 to April 2004 as the NIO for Strategic and Nuclear Programs. He also served as the Special Assistant to the DCI for Persian Gulf War Illnesses Issues. He served for nearly five years as a Deputy Director of the DCI Nonproliferation Center (NPC). He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Defense and Arms Control Policy, Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, from 1989-1992. Prior to shifting to a policy portfolio, Mr. Walpole managed intelligence analysis on foreign strategic and nuclear programs as a Division Chief and Office Director in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (1985-89).  B.A. in International Relations and in Interior Design from Brigham Young University in 1978 before being recruited to join CIA as an imagery analyst. His honors include the Department of State Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards and the Distinguished Intelligence Medal for work on Gulf war illnesses issues.

Commerce Secretary: Donald Louis Evans, Bush's 2000 campaign chairman, and a longtime friend and business partner of President Bush.  He was chairman and CEO of  Tom Brown Inc., a petroleum company.  Evans is leaving the post. Carlos Gutierrez has been nominated to replace Don Evans as Secretary of Commerce.  He is CEO and Chairman of the Board of the Kellogg Company, and an immigrant who excaped Castro's Cuba in 1960.  Mr. Gutierrez began working for Kellogg in Mexico City, Mexico nearly 30 years ago. In 1982, he was promoted to Supervisor for Latin American marketing services and transferred to the corporate headquarters.  Mr. Gutierrez is a co-trustee of the W. K. Kellogg Foundation Trust, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Colgate-Palmolive Company and Grocery Manufacturers of America. Info from NewsMax  Deputy Secretary of Commerce: Samuel W. Bodman, Chairman and CEO of Cabot Corp. in Boston. Before Cabot, he was President, CEO and a Director of FMR Corp. Under Secretary for International Trade: Grant D. Aldonas, Chief International Trade Counsel for the Senate Finance Committee and was a Partner with Miller & Chevalier 1986-1997.  Aldonas served as Director of South America and Caribbean Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative 1984-1985 and as Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Economic Affairs 1983-1984.  Aldonas was also appointed as a member of the Congressional-Executive Commission on the People's Republic of China by President Bush. Under Secretary for Export Administration: Kenneth I. Juster, a Senior Partner with the law firm of Arnold & Porter.  During the George H.W. Bush Administration, he served as the Counselor of the State Department as well as the Deputy and Senior Advisor to Kissinger protege Lawrence Eagleburger.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Assistant Secretary for Export Administration: James J. Jochum, a Senior Manager for Government Relations for Accenture.  He has served in the past as Majority Counsel for the Senate Banking Committee and as Trade Counsel and Legislative Director for Sen. Charles Grassley 1994-1999. Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement:  Assistant Secretary for Import Administration: Faryar Shirzad, previously the International Trade Counsel for the Senate Finance Committee and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Under Secretary for Economic Affairs: Kathleen B. Cooper, the Chief Economist and Manager of the Economics and Energy Division of Exxon Mobil Corporation in Irving, Texas.  Before joining Exxon Corporation, she was Executive Vice President and Chief Economist at Security Pacific Bank for nine years.  She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Assistant Secretary and Director General of the U.S. & Foreign Commercial Service: Maria Cino, previously Deputy Chairman for political operations for Victory 2000 at the Republican National Committee (RNC).  In the past she was National Political Director for the Bush Campaign and worked as a Government Affairs Consultant with the law firm of Wiley, Rein and Fielding. Assistant Secretary for Market Access Compliance: William Henry Lash, III, a Professor at George Mason U. School of Law.  He also serves as a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Center for the Study of American Business at Washington University.  Lash was previously the Associate Dean and Director of Law and Economics Center at George Mason University and was an Associate Professor of Law at St. Louis U., 1990-1994. He has also served as an Associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Jacobson and as Counsel to Susan Leibeler, Chairman of the U.S. International Trade Commission in 1988.  Yale, Harvard Law. Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs: Brenda L. Becker, previously V.P. of Congressional Communications for Blue Cross Blue Shield Associates and held a variety of positions with Blue Cross Blue Shield in the past. General Counsel: Theodore William Kassinger, a partner with Vinson & Elkins. In the past he served as the International Trade Counsel for the Senate Finance Committee as well as an Advisor at the Department of State. Assistant Secretary for Economic Development: David A. Sampson, president & CEO of the Arlington, TX Chamber of Commerce and chairman of the Texas Council on Workforce and Economic Competitiveness. Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy: Bruce P. Mehlman, who served as Telecommunications Policy Counsel for Cisco Systems since 1999.  Before joining Cisco he was General Counsel and Policy Director for the House Republican Conference and served as General Counsel for the National Republican Congressional Committee 1996-1999.  Princeton, U.VA. Law School. Trade and Development Agency - Director: Themla J. Askey, who previously served as a Commissioner with the International Trade Commission after being nominated by President Clinton, until her term expired in December 2000.  She also served with the Ways and Means Trade Subcommittee. Government National Mortgage Association - President: Ronald Rosenfeld, most recently the Secretary of Commerce for Oklahoma, and was Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance 1992-1993.  He served at the HUD 1989-1991.  Harvard. United States International Trade Commission - Member: Daniel Pearson, of Minnesota, to serve for a term expiring 2011.

Commodity Futures Trading Commission - Commissioner: Walter Lukken, for a five year term expiring in 2005. He was a staff member for the Senate Agriculture Committee 1997-2001, and was a Legislative Assistant to Senator Richard Lugar 1993-1998.  Graduate, Indiana U. and Lewis and Clark Law School.

Community Relations Service - Acting Director: Jonathon Chase, who served with the Community Relations Service for more than thirty years and is presently an Associate Director. Haverford College, Bryn Mawr College.

Corporation for Public Broadcasting This is the Federal agency which subsidizes the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) and National Public Radio (NPR) with taxpayer's dollars.  Totalitarian governments own or control the media, and our government should get out the business of partially funding any media. NPR and PBS could succeed very well as totally membership and private grant supported organizationss. Member of the Board of Directors: Cheryl Feldman Halpern, of New Jersey Member of the Board of Directors: Claudia Puig of Florida.

Consumer Product Safety Commission - Chairman: Mary Sheila Gall, currently in her second term as a Member of the CPSC, appointed once by former President Bush and once by former President Clinton and has served as Vice Chairman of the Commission for five years.  From 1989-1991, she headed the Human Development Services Agency while holding the position of Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services and was Counselor to the Director of OPM, 1986-1989.  She was Deputy Policy Advisor to Vice President Bush, 1981-1986.

Council on Environmental Quality - Chairman: James Laurence Connaughton, a partner with Sidley & Austin in Washington, D.C. He served for the last seven years as one of the lead negotiators on the U.S. Technical Advisory Group to the International Standards Organization (ISO) Technical Committee 207; negotiating international environmental standards.  He has worked extensively on issues of foreign and U.S environmental regulation, international treaties, U.S. Legislation and Occupational Health and Safety Management.  He has been a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) since 1994. Yale, Northwestern.

Defense Secretary: Nominee--Bob Gates, former CIA director. Gates was CIA Director 1991-1993 under GHW Bush and has been president of Texas A and M University since 2002. Gates is also a member of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group.  He joined the CIA in 1965 and served for 27 years.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and in 2004 co-chaired a task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations which promoted negotiating with Iran.  Described as a long time friend of the Bush family. "Resigned" 11/8/06  Donald Rumsfeld, the Defense Secretary under President Ford 1975-1977.  Under President Nixon, he was Director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO) -- Howard Phillips, Chairman of The Conservative Caucus later (1974) tried to shut down OEO, a wasteful left-wing federal agency.  Rumsfield was also a member of President Nixon's Cabinet 1969-1970; U.S. ambassador to NATO in Brussels, Belgium 1973-1974.  He served in Congress 1963-1969 (R-IL).  Rumsfield was Chief of Staff of the White House and a member of the President's Cabinet 1974-1975; and, Secretary of Defense. From 1977-1985 he served as CEO, President, and then chairman of drug company G.D. Searle & Co.  He was chairman and CEO of General Instrument Corp. from 1990-1993; and until 2001, he was Chairman of Gilead Sciences, another drug manufacturer. 12/4/04: President Bush has asked Rumsfield to continue as DOD Sec. Assistant Secretary of Defense: Paul Wolfowitz, Undersecretary of Defense under former President Bush, former ambassador to Indonesia, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a member of the Aspen Institute’s Strategy Group, reportedly attended the 2000 Bilderberg meeting in Belgium, and was a member of the Trilateral Commission as of 2000. Chief of Staff: Lawrence di Rita, who is also serving in Iraq with the DOD Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance.  His wife is on the staff of the pro-INC Committee for the Liberation of Iraq. Undersecretary of Defense & Comptroller: Dov S. Zakheim, CEO of System Planning Corporation International and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Total Information Awareness Office [Now renamed "Terrorism Information Awareness"] (TIA)- Former Director was John Poindexter. "Poindexter is now realizing his 20-year dream: getting the "data-mining" power to snoop on every public and private act of every American" (William Safire). "Total Information Awareness..is our answer" (Poindexter).  8/13/03: Poindexter resigns. Among current projects: "Human Identification at Distance"; converting speech to text (for phone calls, spy bugs or listening in buildings and outside, etc.); creating "large-scale, semantically rich, easily implementable database technologies. One goal is to develop ways of treating the world-wide, distributed, legacy data bases as if they were one centralized data base, and another is to develop privacy protection technologies" (which could include collecting data from commercial and business databases/customer lists).  While serving as National Security Adviser to President Reagan, Poindexter organized a plan to sell missiles to Iran to pay ransom for hostages, with the proceeds used to support the Nicaraguan Contras, the freedom fighters opposing the Communist Sandinista dictatorship.  While the Contras needed the help, dealing with Iran was a bad idea.  Poindexter had a $200 million dollar budget to create a huge spy database on every American and their daily activities.  Will Poindexter move to greater power and funding in the new Department of Homeland Security or will good people wake up and shut it down? Update: 2/11/03: Senate & House agree to limit TIA to investigating only non-U.S. Citizens.  Update 10/26/06  TIA reborn as "Tangram", under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Under Secretary of Defense for Policy: Douglas Jay Feith, formerly with Feith and Zell, P.C., in Washington, D.C. He served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Negotiations Policy, 1984-1986 and was Special Counsel to Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Peale 1982-1984.  Feith is a graduate of Harvard and Georgetown Law and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy: Michael H. Mobbs, who also currently serves as Civil Administration Coordinator to the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (Iraq).   Mr. Mobbs' recent assignments at Defense include serving as head of the Energy Infrastructure Planning Group, an interagency group that developed contingency plans on post-conflict energy matters. Mr. Mobbs served as the Secretary of Defense Representative to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, 1982-1985. In 1985, Mr. Mobbs was appointed as Assistant Director (Strategic Programs) of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he dealt with missile defense research, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty issues and intermediate-range nuclear force negotiations, as well as strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union.  Mr. Mobbs was an attorney for over 20 years concentrating in international commercial transactions. His geographic specialty is Russia and Eastern Europe. He has served as the managing partner in the Moscow and Budapest offices of several major U.S. law firms. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy: Christopher Ryan Henry, who has been a V.P. at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Prior to SAIC, he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he led the Information-based Warfare initiative and served as Director of the "Conflict in the Digital Age Project."  Graduate, U.S. Naval Academy, National Defense Univ.  He also has advanced degrees in Aeronautical Systems from the University of Florida and in Systems Management and Public Policy from the University of Southern CA. He's Baaack (11/22/02): Special Assistant to the Defense Secretary: Stephen E. Herbits, who briefly screened applicants for top level Defense jobs in 2001, has now returned to again screen candidates for high positions in the Department of Defense.  Herbits is described as a homosexual activist who opposes the ban on homosexuals in the military and has supported liberal Democrat candidates.  In the 2000 election cycle, he donated $13,000 to the Democrat National Committee and $3,750 to Democrat candidates.  He also worked for Dick Cheney at DOD under former President Bush's administration, where he recruited civilians for DOD jobs.  His nomination was opposed by conservatives and pro-family groups.  Herbits helped Mr. Rumsfeld pick the current three service secretaries, as well as other senior posts.  The Washington Times reports (11/20/02) that Mr. Herbits is "looking at replacements for the three service secretaries, as well as other posts".  The Times also reports in the same article that "Mr. Herbits, a Miami Beach resident, criticized President Bush's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, for failing to meet with him over an anti-gay rights referendum on the 2002 ballot. The referendum ultimately failed.  "I was so offended that I went to Rumsfeld and said, 'I have to go home because I have to protect my kids from the president's brother,'" the Advocate quoted Mr. Herbits as saying. The publication wrote that Mr. Rumsfeld asked, "Your kids?" Mr. Herbits said, "Not my birth kids, but my kids who are struggling with their sexual orientation and have no one to take care of them."  The Pentagon has about 130 positions that require White House approval.  Herbits worked under Mr. Rumsfeld three decades ago in the Ford administration and has advised a number of Republican administrations on key recruits.   Why? Special Assistant to the Defense Secretary: Retired Vice Adm. M. Staser Holcomb, a longtime Rumsfeld adviser, has also returned to the Pentagon, where he screened senior officers in 2001. Sources say he is interviewing candidates for promotion to senior ranks. Secretary of the Air Force: James G. Roche, a senior executive with Northrop Grumman, where he has worked since 1984.  Previously, he served as Democratic Staff Director for the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services 1983-1984 and as Principal Deputy Director of the Policy Planning Staff at the State Department.  He was a senior professional staff member of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence 1979-1981, and served as Assistant Director of the Office of Net Assessment in the Office of the Secretary of Defense 1975-1979.  Roche is a 23 year veteran of the Navy, received an undergraduate degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master's degree from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School and a doctorate from Harvard Gradate School of Business.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  Homosexual activist Stephen E. Herbits helped select Mr. Roche for this position. Secretary of the Army: Thomas E. White, former Vice-Chairman of Enron Energy Services.  He has served as Chairman and CEO of Enron Operations Corporation and as Chairman and CEO of Enron Power Corporation since joining Enron in 1990.  After 23 years, White retired from the U.S. Army as a Brigadier General.  He served as Executive Assistant to General Colin Powell while he served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1989-1990 and served as Director of the Armor/Anti-Armor Special Task Force in the Office of the Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army.  He is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the War College.  Homosexual activist Stephen E. Herbits helped select Mr. White for this position. Under Secretary of the Army: Matt Fong, the founder and President of Strategic Advisory Group and was of counsel to the law firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton.  Fong served in Air Force Reserves since 1980, following five years of active duty in the Air Force.  He has been the Chief for Budget and Congressional Analysis for the Pentagon since 2000.  Fong was California State Treasurer 1995-1999 and is a graduate of the Air Force Academy. Acting Secretary of the Army for Civil Works: R.L. Brownlee, who presently serves as Under Secretary of the Army. Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works: John Paul Woodley, Jr. who has been the Assistant Under Secretary of Defense for the Environment, and previously served as the Secretary of Natural Resources of Virginia 1998-2001.  From 1994-1998, he was the Deputy Attorney General for Government Operations of Virginia. Active Duty in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps 1979-1985, and served in the US Army Reserve since 1985. JD and BA degrees from Washington and Lee. Acting Secretary of the Navy: Hansford T. Johnson, who served as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Installations and Environment. Mr. Johnson has been a leader in the military, public and business sectors for over 41 years. He previously was the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Air Force Transportation and Military Airlift Command and served as Deputy Commander in Chief of the Central Command during the U.S. re-flagging of Kuwaiti oil tankers and escort operation in the Persian Gulf. During Viet Nam, he was a forward air controller and flew 423 combat missions. After his combat tour, he served as an assistant professor of aeronautics at the Air Force Academy. Graduate, U.S. Air Force Academy, master's degree from Stanford, M.B.A. from U. of Colorado. He went on to further his military training at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College and the National War College. Under Secretary of the Navy: Susan Morrisey Livingstone, CEO and Deputy Chairman of the Association of the U.S. Army.  From 1993-1998 she served at the American Red Cross as V.P. of Health and Safety Services, as Acting Senior V.P. for Chapter Services and as a Consultant for Armed Forces Emergency Services.  She served as Assistant Secretary of the Army for Installations, Logistics and Environment 1989-1993 and served at the Veterans Admin., 1981-1989 in several positions including Associate Deputy Administrator for Logistics 1986-1989. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense: Rep. Paul McHale, a former Congressman from Pennsylvania and the V.P. of Tallman, Hudders and Sorrentino. A member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1993-1999, he served on the House Armed Services Committee and on the House Science Committee. Previously, he was elected to five consecutive terms in Pennsylvania's State House. He resigned in 1991, following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, and volunteered for active duty as an infantry officer with the Marine Corps. He served with the Marines in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He remains a member of the reserves with the rank of Colonel. Graduate, Lehigh University, J.D. from Georgetown. Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence: Stephen A. Cambone, who served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense and Director for Program Analysis & Evaluation. Prior to this, he served as Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Earlier in his career, Dr. Cambone served as Director of Research at the Institute for National Strategic Studies at the National Defense University. He also served as a Senior Fellow for Political-Military Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) 1993-1998. Catholic U., master’s and Ph.D. from Claremont University Graduate School. Under Secretary for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics: Edward C. Aldridge, CEO of The Aerospace Corp. and Secretary of the Air Force, 1986-1988. General Counsel: William James Haynes, II, a Partner at the Law Firm of Jenner & Bloch and served as General Counsel to the Department of the Army 1990-1993. Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs: Powell A. Moore, Chief of Staff for Senator Fred Thompson (R-TN).  He was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for Intergovernmental and Legislative Affairs in 1982 and served former President Reagan as Deputy Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs in 1981. Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs: Victoria Clarke, the General Manager of the Washington Office of Hill & Knowlton.  She served as Assistant U.S. Trade Rep. for Public Affairs and Private Sector Liaison, 1989-1992 and was Press Secretary for Senator John McCain, 1983-1989. Assistant Secretary for Force Management: Charles S. Abell, a Professional Staff Member at the Senate Armed Services Committee and was a member of the Office of Legislative Liaison of the Secretary of the Army 1989-1992. Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness: David S.C. Shu, V.P. for RAND's Army Reasearch Division and Director of the Arroyo Center.  He was Assistant Secretary of Defense for Program Analysis and Evaluation 1988-1993 and Director of Program Analysis and Evaluation at Defense, 1981-1988. Assistant Secretary for International Security Policy: Jack Dyer Crouch, II, an Associate Professor at Southwest Missouri State University in the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies.  Crouch was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy 1990-1992, and he served former Senator Malcolm Wallop 1986-1990.  From 1985-1986, he served at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency as an advisor for the U.S. Delegation to the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. Defense Policy Board - Chairman: Richard N. Perle, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy, 1981-1987 under President Reagan.   He was a research fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and a member of the Board of Advisors of Foundation for Defense of Democracy.  Perle is the former chairman and CEO of Hollinger Digital, and from 1969-1980 he was on the staff of Senator Henry Jackson where he drafted the Jackson-Vannik Amendment which linked Soviet trade to liberalized emigration.  Perle is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).  The Defense Policy Board is a policy advisory group which meets quarterly to give advice to the Secretary of Defense.  Most of it's membership are members of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Kenneth Adelman, former aide to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Richard Allen, former National Security Adviser, a Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Martin Anderson, the Keith and Jan Hurlbut Senior Fellow, longtime policy adviser to presidents and governors, fellow at the Hoover Institution. Member: Gary S. Becker, a Nobel laureate in economics and a fellow at the Hoover Institution. Member: Harold Brown, former Secretary of Defense under President Carter.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Eliot Cohen, Professor and director of the Strategic Studies Program at the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.  Author, "Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesman, and Leadership in Wartime".  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Thomas Foley, Former Democrat Speaker of the House of Representatives and former Ambassador to Japan.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Rep. Tillie K. Fowler, a former member of Congress (R-FL) who was on the House Armed Services Committee. She is a partner with the law firm Holland & Knight in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. Member: Newt Gingrich, former Speaker of the House (1995-1998) and Congressman from Georgia.  He is a Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Dr. Kim R. Holmes, is Vice President and Director of the Institute for International Studies at the Heritage Foundation. Dr. Holmes is Heritage's principal spokesman on foreign and defense policy issues.   Previously he was Director of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies and Senior Policy Analyst for national security affairs at Heritage. Dr. Holmes first joined Heritage in 1985 as a defense policy analyst specializing in weapons systems, the defense budget, military reform and strategic defense. Prior to joining Heritage, he had been a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis, a research institute associated with the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.  He also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the CFR's Washington Advisory Committee; a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Center for International Private Enterprise, and has served as a public member of the U.S. delegation to the Organization on Security and Cooperation in Europe. Member: Admiral David Jeremiah, (U.S. Navy, Ret.) the president of Technology Strategies & Alliances, a banking firm involved in the aerospace, defense, telecommunications and electronics industries.  Former Deputy Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.   Jerimiah has been a member of a National Reconnaissance Advisory Panel, the National Defense Panel, and the Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources. In 1994, he served as vice chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff to Generals Powell and Shalikashvili. He has been a member of the Mitre Corp. Board of Trustees since 1999. Member: Henry Kissinger, who resigned from the 9/11 Commission because of conflicts of interest from his clients and his refusal to reveal his secret client list of corporations and foreign governments.  Because he is a member of the Bush administration by serving on this Board, Kissinger must still make full disclosure as to whom he does business with and if any of the countries are on the State Department list of terrorist-sponsoring nations. Kissinger was Secretary of State under both Nixon and Ford. Kissinger, is known for his heavy ties to the New World Order/Rockefeller/Trilateral/CFR axis, and is also Chairman of Kissinger Associates, where Kissinger made his fortune brokering business deals in particular between American corporations and the Red Chinese dictatorship, as well as with other foreign governments.  He is also a counselor to the Chase Manhattan Bank; a former consultant to Unocal oil company; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), where he served on the Board of Directors; and a member of the Trilateral Commission (in spite of active government service), where he serves on the Executive Committee. "Today, America would be outraged if U.N. troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful! This is especially true if they were told that there were an outside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-being granted to them by the World Government." (attributed to Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bilderberger Conference, Evians, France, 1991). Kissinger Info * Kissinger & Panama Canal * Kissinger: Cover up Artist * Kissinger & Psychological Warfare Member: Dan Quayle, the former Vice President. Member: Henry Rowen, former Assistant Secretary of Defense for international security affairs  He is a Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). James Schlesinger, the current chairman of the Board of Mitre Corp and is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Nixon Center.  He was Secretary of Defense 1973-1975, Secretary of Energy 1977-1979 under President Carter, Director of CIA 1973, Chairman, Atomic Energy Commission 1973; and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: George P. Shultz, the Secretary of State under Reagan and Bush from 1982-1989. He was Secretary of Labor, Director of the OMB & Treasury Secretary from 1972-74 during the Nixon administration.  He is a Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Member: Kiron Skinner, an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon University and research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.  Skinner is the co-editor of the book "Reagan: In His Own Hand".  She is a member and a fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Harvard. Member: Pete Wilson, former GOP Governor of California and a fellow at the Hoover Institution Member: James Woolsey, former CIA Director under President Clinton, 1993-1996 and a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, D.C. Woolsey was also Under Secretary of the Navy, 1977-1979; General Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, 1970-1973, and is a member of the Board of the Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR).

Iraq: DOD Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (OHRA) This is the civilian and military command structure over rebuilding efforts in Iraq.  It is under the Defense Department. Civilian Administrator: L. Paul Bremer. Bremer is a former State Department official and terrorism expert, who is now senior to Gen. Garner.  Bremer has been a diplomat for 23 years, including service on the Homeland Security Advisory Council, as Ambassador at Large for Counterterrorism in the Reagan Administration, and as Chairman of the National Commission on Terrorism which concluded its work in 2000.  He is currently Chairman and CEO of Marsh Crisis Consulting company.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and he worked for Kissinger Associates after he left the foreign service. Director: Lt. Gen. Jay M. Garner (Ret.) who served as President of SY Technology, Inc. from 1997-2003.  Garner served as a member of the Army Science Board in 1998-1999 and was appointed by Congress as a member of the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and organization in 2000-2001.  He currently serves on the USSTRATCOM Strategic Advisory Board. General Garner served as Commanding General of the Army Space and Strategic Defense Command.   He also served as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Force Development, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Plans, Washington, D.C., and Deputy Commanding General, V Corps Germany.  His last assignment with the United States Army was as the Assistant Vice Chief of Staff of the Army (AVCSA). In 1991 he was Commanding General, Joint Task Force Bravo - Operation Provide Comfort in northern Iraq. Regional Coordinator for North Iraq: Maj. Gen. W. Bruce Moore, Prior to this position, he served at PAE Government Services as consultant on a joint State and DOD initiative to solicit the support of the countries of Mauritania, Mali, Sudan and Chad in the War on Terrorism.  At MPRI, in Virginia, General Moore served from 2000-2001 as a Program Manager for Military Stabilization Program for Bosnia-Herzegovina. Moore also directed the Nigeria Assessment, an in depth assessment of the actions required to insure a successful transition from a military government to a civilian government. Moore served in two combat tours in S. Vietnam and one in Somalia. He also served in various command positions and was the Chief of Staff of the 101st Airborne (Air Assault), the XVII Airborne Corps and the Assistant Division Commander of the 3rd Infantry Division in Germany. Gen. Ron Adams (Ret.) who served concurrently as Commanding General, U.S. Army NATO and Deputy Commander, Joint Headquarters Centre, Allied Command Europe. Previously, he served in a wide variety of command and staff positions in Vietnam; Korea; around the Pacific Rim; in the Middle East and in Europe, including service as Commander of the NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia. Since retiring in 2002, General Adams has worked as a consultant for a number of large companies and serves on several advisory boards for non-profit organizations, a private foundation and a public university. Civil Administration Coordinator: Michael H. Mobbs, who also currently serves as Special Advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Mr. Mobbs' recent assignments at Defense include serving as head of the Energy Infrastructure Planning Group, an interagency group that developed contingency plans on post-conflict energy matters. Mr. Mobbs served as the Secretary of Defense Representative to the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks, 1982-1985. In 1985, Mr. Mobbs was appointed as Assistant Director (Strategic Programs) of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, where he dealt with missile defense research, Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty issues and intermediate-range nuclear force negotiations, as well as strategic arms negotiations with the Soviet Union.  Mr. Mobbs has over twenty years of experience as an attorney in the private law practice concentrating in international commercial transactions and corporate matters, including cross-border investments, finance, privatization, defense conversion, and international business disputes. His geographic specialty is Russia and Eastern Europe. He is fluent in Russian and has served as the managing partner in the Moscow and Budapest offices of several major U.S. law firms. Coordinator for Support by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Maj. Gen. Carl Strock. During his 32 years of service, General Strock has commanded two engineer divisions, a mechanized engineer brigade, an airborne engineer battalion, a mechanized infantry company, and a special forces detachment. He has also served as installation chief of staff, a personnel officer of the Army General Staff and instructor at the British Royal School of military engineering. Strock is a professional engineer. Maj. Gen. Tim Cross (Britian), who was Commander Supply 1 (UK) Armoured Division in the 1990/91 Gulf War.  In 1996, he served in Bosnia, and in 1997 he took over command of the UK logistic capability with SFOR and at the same time, assumed command of 101 Logistic Brigade.  In 1999 he was the Commander of the Joint Force Logistic Component for the British Contribution in Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo. He worked between 2002-2003 establishing logistics for the current operations in the Middle East.  Actively involved in the Officers Christian Union, he is a licensed lay reader. Coordinator for Reconstruction: Lewis W. Lucke, a Senior Foreign Service Officer, Lucke has served for 24 years at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in seven overseas posts. He served as USAID Mission Director in Haiti, 2000-2001, where he managed the largest U.S. development program in the Western Hemisphere. From 1996-2000 he was USAID Mission Director in Jordan. Additionally, Lucke managed and led U.S. support for Jordan's entrance to the WTO, and was USAID Deputy Mission Director in Bolivia from 1993-1996.  From 1990-1992 he served as Assistant USAID Mission Director in Tunisia; Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Europe; and Chief of Project Development and Finance for South America. Coordinator of Operations: Lt. Gen. Jared L. Bates, Prior to this appointment, he was a V.P. and GM, National Group, MPRI, since 1997; and he has taken a leave of absence from National Group for this duration.  General Bates served as Assistant Division Commander of the 7th Infantry Division, and served with U.S. Forces Command and as Commanding General, 5th Infantry Division and later with the 2d Armored Division at Ft. Hood.  He retired in 1997. Coordinator for Humanitarian Assistance: Ambassador George F. Ward Jr. (Ret.). Ward is currently detailed from his position as director of the Professional Training Program at the United States Institute of Peace.   He joined the Institute in 1999 after a thirty year career in the Foreign Service, and was ambassador to Namibia, 1996-1999.  From 1992-96, Ward was principal deputy assistant Secretary of State for International Organization Affairs.  During his assignment as deputy chief of mission in Germany in 1989-92, Ward played a leading role in the negotiations that led to German unification. Regional Coordinator for South Iraq: Brig. Gen F.J. 'Buck' Walters (U.S. Army, Ret).  Prior to his appointment, Walters served as the Chief Operating Officer of a private insurance firm in Texas.  Walters also served as president of Productive Change Associates. General Walters has 32 years of Army service.  In June 1987 General Walters was selected for promotion to Brigadier General and in 1988 he became a member of the Royal College of Defence Studies in London.  From 1988-1991 he commanded the Army Third Region, Army ROTC Cadet Command at Fort Riley, Kansas.  In 1991 he became the Chief of Staff, Fifth U.S. Army at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Regional Coordinator for Baghdad and Central Iraq: Ambassador Barbara K. Bodine, Note--she is leaving this position 5/18 to return to the State Dept. in Washington.  a career member of the Senior Foreign Service who was Ambassador to Yemen from 1997-2001.  She spent her career working primarily on the Middle East and Southwest Asia, with a focus on security and counterterrorism issues. She twice served in the State Department’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs’ Office of Arabian Peninsula Affairs.  Bodine was Deputy Principal Officer at the U.S. Interests Section in Baghdad, 1981-83; and Deputy Chief of Mission in Kuwait prior to and during the Iraqi invasion and occupation, and she worked in occupied Kuwait in 1990. Following Kuwait, Bodine was the Associate Coordinator for Counterterrorism Operations in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism. Director of communications: Margaret Tutwiler, who is expected to return to Washington soon. Coordinator with Iraq's Ministry of Industry and Minerals: Tim Carney, also expected to leave this post soon. David Dunford, a senior Middle East expert; John Limbert, the ambassador to Mauritania. Senior Adviser to the Iraqi Oil Ministry: Gary Vogler, a former ExxonMobil Oil executive. Lawrence di Rita has been selected to play a prominent role.  He is also the current Chief of Staff to Secretary Rumsfeld, and his wife is on the staff of the pro-INC Committee for the Liberation of Iraq.

Education Secretary: Roderick Paige, formerly the Superintendent of the Houston Independent School District. Paige has submitted his resignation and a replacement will be nominated soon. Deputy Secretary of Education: William D. Hansen, the Executive Director and CEO of the Education Finance Council.  He served in the Department of Education 1981-1993, including Assistant Secretary for Management and Budget and Chief Financial Officer 1991-1993, Acting Assistant Secretary for Legislative and Congressional Affairs, and Acting Deputy Under Secretary for Planning, Budget and Evaluation. Under Secretary of Education: Gene Hickok, Secretary of Education for Pennsylvania, 1995-2001.  Previously he was the Director of the Clarke Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Contemporary Issues and a Professor of Political Science at Dickinson U. Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education: Carol D'Amico, the Executive Director for Workforce, Economic and Community Development at Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana in Indianapolis.  Previously, she was a policy and planning specialist for the Indiana Department of Education and was a program analyst for the Indiana General Assembly. Assistant Secretary of Education for Educational Research and Improvement: Grover Russ Whitehurst, a psychologist.  Whitehurst was a Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics, and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the State University of NY at Stony Brook.  He obtained a Ph.D. in experimental child psychology in 1970 from the U. of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and did much taxpayer-funded psychological research. Assistant Secretary for Administration and Management: Ed Sontag, Ed.D.  Dr. Sontag will oversee hiring and taxpayer-funded grants at HHS.  Before assuming this role, Dr. Sontag had served since February 2001 as Deputy Chief of Staff for Management and Operations. Before accepting his appointment at HHS, Dr. Sontag served as an advisor to Gov. Thompson in Wisconsin on educational issues and was a professor at the U. of Wisconsin, a director of special education for a state department of education and the Director of Special Education for the U.S. Dept. of Education.  Millions of children are forced to take mind-altering drugs such as Ritalin after contact with special education programs. Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights: Gerald Reynolds, given a recess appointment by President Bush after the Democrat Senate refused to confirm him.  Reynolds served since 1998 as Senior Regulatory Counsel at Kansas City Power & Light. From 1997-1998, he was President and Legal Counsel for the Center for New Black Leadership and continues to sit on the Board of Directors. Reynolds served as a Legal Analyst for the Center for Equal Opportunity from 1995-1997. Graduate, CUNY at York College & Boston U. School of Law. Assistant Secretary of Education for Legislation and Congressional Affairs: Karen Johnson of Virginia.  Johnson was V.P. of Social Marketing and Public Affairs for Porter Novelli, Prior to joining Porter Novelli, she was a fellow at the U. Pennsylvania's Annenberg School for Communications. During the Republican National Convention in 2000, she served as the Assistant Convention Manager for Public Liaison. She has traveled to Cambodia and Thailand, serving as an instructor of Political Communications and Public Relations with the International Republican Institute. She also traveled to China and Hong Kong to serve as a delegate for the American Council of Young Political Leaders. Director of the Institute of Education Sciences: Grover Whitehurst of New York , appointed for a six-year term. a psychologist.  Whitehurst was a Professor of Psychology and Pediatrics, and Chairman of the Department of Psychology at the State University of NY at Stony Brook.  He obtained a Ph.D. in experimental child psychology in 1970 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and did much taxpayer-funded psychological research.  Currently, Dr. Whitehurst serves as Assistant Secretary at the Dept. of Education. General Counsel: Brian Jones, an attorney with Curiale, Dellaverson, Hirschfeld, Kelly and Kramer in San Francisco.  He served under Gov. Pete Wilson as Deputy Legal Affairs Secretary, was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary 1997-1998 and president of the Center for New Black Leadership 1995-1997. Inspector General: John Portman Higgins, who served at the Dept. of Education since 1980. He is currently the Director of the Management Improvement Team in the Office of the Deputy Secretary, and from 1995-2001 he held several positions in the Department's Office of the Inspector General including Deputy Inspector General.

Energy Secretary: Spencer Abraham, Former U.S. Senator (R, MI).   He is a member of the conservative Federalist Society.  He was also appointed to be the United States Representative to the 45th General Conference of the International Atomic Energy Agency.   Nominee to replace Abraham: Margaret Spellings, the current White House domestic policy adviser.  "I am a product of our public schools," she said upon being nominated.  Karl Rove, the president's political strategist, said Spellings is "the most influential woman in Washington that you've never heard of."  Spellings worked for six years as Bush's education adviser in Texas, pushing policies on early reading and student accountability. They became the model for the federal law, No Child Left Behind, that Spellings helped put together from the White House after Bush's election in 2000.  Spellings left the Capitol in 1988 to become a lobbyist for the Texas Association of School Boards. She worked on Bush's first gubernatorial campaign in 1994, and joined his staff as an education adviser after his election. It was there that she helped usher in the reforms that later spawned the federal No Child Left Behind law.  NEA president Reg Weaver appeared to endorse Spellings, stating "We look forward to finding common ground with Ms. Spellings in her new role."  Sen. Edward Kennedy also had kind words, saying she is "a capable, principled leader who has the ear of the president and has earned strong, bipartisan respect in Congress."  Did Spellings have any role in the Soviet-style Texas Medication Algorithm Project (TMAP)--Please let us know if so.  Spellings was known by her maiden name in the Texas years: Margaret LaMontagne. Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy: Carolyn Huntoon. Deputy Secretary of Energy: Francis S. Blake, a Senior V.P. at General Electric where he has served since 1991.  Before GE, he was a partner with the law firm of Swindler & Berlin in Washington, D.C., and served as General Counsel at EPA 1985-1988.  He served as Deputy Counsel to former Vice President Bush 1981-1983. General Counsel: Lee Sarah Liberman Otis, formerly Chief Counsel at the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, and served in the Civil Division of the Department of Justice  1984-1986 as an Associate Counsel to President Bush.  She is a member of the Federalist Society. Under Secretary of Energy: Robert Gordon Card, presently the President and CEO of Kaiser-Hill, and was previously Executive V.P. of CH2M Hill. Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management: Jessie Hill Roberson, a member of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board and was previously the Department of Energy's Manager of the Rocky Flats Field Office at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site in Colorado 1996-1999. She has also held positions with Georgia Power and DuPont. Assistant Secretary for International Affairs and Domestic Policy: Vicki A. Bailey, the president of PSI Energy in Indianapolis.  She was a Commissioner on the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission 1993-2000, and served as a Commissioner on the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission 1986-1993. Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs: Dan R. Brouillette, a partner with the Alpine Group, Inc., and was formerly Senior V.P. of R. Duffy Wall & Assoc. 1997-2000.  He served as Legislative Director to Rep. Billy Tauzin 1989-1997 and is a veteran of the U.S. Army. Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Administrator for Nuclear Security at the National Nuclear Security Administration, Linton F. Brooks currently the Acting Under Secretary for Nuclear Security and Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation at the Department of Energy. Prior to his work with Energy, he served as Vice President and Director for Policy, Strategy and Forces Division of the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA), a federally funded research and development center in Virginia. During the George H.W. Bush administration, he served as Assistant Director for Strategic and Nuclear Affairs at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and as Head of the U.S. Delegation on Nuclear and Space Talks and Chief Strategic Arms Reductions (START) Negotiator. In this later capacity, he was responsible for final preparation of the START Treaty signed by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow on July 31, 1991. Brooks served in the U.S. Navy for thirty years and retired as a Captain. Graduate, Duke, master's from the University of Maryland, U.S. Navy War College. Acting Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs: Shannon Davis Henderson, who has served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs. Southern Methodist U. Senior Policy Adviser for International Affairs to the Secretary of Energy: Randa Hudome, a member of the conservative Federalist Society and formerly counselor & foreign policy advisor for then Senator Spencer Abraham.  Previous positions included service with President Reagan's grassroots lobby, Citizens for America and she was an associate at Willkie, Farr and Gallagher. Georgetown Law. Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy: David Garman, Chief of Staff to Senator Frank Murkowski and served as a Professional Staff Member on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee 1995-1998. Chief Financial Officer: Bruce Marshall Carnes, Deputy Director of Defense Financing and Accounting Services at the Department of Defense and was awarded the DOD Exemplary Civilian Service Award.  He served as the Director of Planning, Budget and Administration at the Office of National Drug Control Policy 1989-1993 and was Deputy Under Secretary of Education 1985-1988. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Commissioner: Nora Mead Brownell, appointed to serve until 2006.  She was a Commissioner on the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission since 1997.  Prior to her appointment, she was Executive Director of the Regional Performing Arts Center in Philadelphia, and Senior V.P. of Meridian Bancorp's Corporate Affairs Unit. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - Commissioner: Patrick Henry Wood III, to serve until 2005. Currently the Chairman of the Public Utility Commission of Texas. He was staff member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from 1991-1993 and legal counsel to the Chairman of the Texas Railroad Commission.  Additionally, he was an engineer with Arco Indonesia and served as an attorney with the law firm of Baker & Botts in Washington, D.C.  Harvard Law. Alert--Under consideration for a top Energy position: Jessie Roberson, who was Clinton's manager of the Department of Energy's Rocky Flats nuclear weapons facility, and is under scrutiny regarding allegations that she sacrificed nuclear weapons security at the plant. Read more Director of the Office of Minority Economic Impact: Theresa Alvillar-Speake, the manager of Small Business and Disabled Veteran Business Enterprise Programs for the State of California Dept. of Transportation. From 1997-2000, she served as Assistant Director of Business Relations for the California Employment Development Department, and from 1994-1997 she was Executive Director and is also the founder of NEDA San Joaquin Valley. She served at the Department of Commerce from 1991-1993 as the Assistant Director for Program Development in the Minority Business Development Agency.

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Director: Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (resigning to become Secretary of HHS) Deputy Administrator: Linda J. Fisher, V.P. of Government Affairs for Monsanto.  Fisher served at the EPA 1985-1993, as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances 1989-1993, as Assistant Administrator for the Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation at EPA from 1988-1989 and as Chief of Staff 1985-1988. Senior Advisor: Tod Burnett, a member of the homosexual "Log Cabin Republicans". Regional Director Manager: Jim Wiggins, the Board Secretary of the homosexual "Log Cabin Republicans". Assistant Administrator (General Counsel): Robert E. Fabricant, previously Chief Counsel to then-Governor Christie Todd Whitman of New Jersey. Assistant Administrator for Air and Radiation: Jeffrey R. Holmstead, formerly with the law firm of Latham & Watkins and was an Associate Counsel under former President Bush.  Graduate of Brigham Young and Yale Law. Assistant Administrator for Water Programs: George Tracey Mehan, III, the Director of the Office of Great Lakes in the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality.  He served as Associate Deputy Administrator of the EPA 1992-1993 and was Director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources 1989-1992. Assistant Administrator for Toxic Substances: Stephen L. Johnson, who was Acting Administrator of the EPA's Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances since January 2001.  He held various positions at EPA including Deputy Director of the Office of Pesticide Programs 1997-1999 and Executive Secretary of the Scientific Advisory Panel for the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act.  Prevoiusly, he served as the Director of Operations at Hazelton Laboratories and Litton Bionetics. Assistant Administrator for Environmental Information: Kimberly Terese Nelson, who served at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection since 1999, first as the Director of Program Integration and Effectiveness and then as Chief Information Officer. From 1987-1995, she was at the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Resources as Special Assistant to the Secretary, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary for Administration and Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary for Field Operations. Assistant Administrator: John Peter Suarez, of New Jersey.

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) -General Counsel: Donald S. Prophete, for a term of four years. Prophete has been Senior Attorney and Director of the Law Department for Labor and Employment for Sprint Corp. since 1997.  Before Sprint, he was an attorney with Bond, Schoeneck and King in New York, and Klett, Rooney, Leiber and Schorling in Pittsburgh.  Originally from Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Prophete is a graduate of Fordham U. and Boston U. Law School. Member: Naomi Churchill Earp, of Virginia, to serve a term expiring 2005.

Export Import Bank - President: Phillip Merrill, to serve the remainder of a four-year term expiring 2005.  He was Chairman of the Board of Capital-Gazette Communications.  Merrill has served in six past administrations and was Assistant Secretary-General of NATO from 1990-1992. His previous government experience includes service as a member of the Defense Policy Board, Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Special Assistant to the Deputy Secretary of State, and Senior Intelligence Analyst for South Asia at the Department of State. He is a U.S. Director of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and Vice-Chairman of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. A former member of the U.S. Army Reserves, Graduate, Cornell and Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development. He was a trustee of the Aspen Institute and is a member of the Council on Foreign relations (CFR). First Vice President of the Export Import Bank of the United States Eduardo Aguirre, Jr., for the remainder of a four year term expiring 2005.  He was the President of Bank of America's International Private Bank.  He was appointed by then Governor Bush as a regent for the University of Houston System and former President Bush appointed him to serve on the National Commission for Employment Opportunity 1991-1993.

Federal Aviation Administration (FAA): Jane Garvey, Clinton appointee and Democrat. Deputy Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, Robert A. Sturgell of Maryland, who served as Senior Counsel to the Administrator. Previously, he was the Senior Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Prior to NTSB, he was a Flight Officer and Flight Operations Supervisor for United Airlines.  Mr. Sturgell served nine years in the U.S. Navy as an aviator and a member of the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Topgun) staff.  Bachelor's, U.S. Naval Academy;   J.D. from U. Va.

Federal Communications Commission Chairman (FCC): Michael Powell, the son of Colin Powell and an FCC Commissioner appointed by Bill Clinton in 1997.  Powell was a Crown Fellow with the Aspen Institute until this year.  He has also been nominated to be a Commissioner of the FCC until 2007. Powell announced 1/21/05 he will resign as chairman; after having approved greatly increased centralization of broadcasting by a handful of (mostly liberal) companies and no action to expand low-power broadcasting.  Powell may be replaced by Kevin Martin. Broadcasting Board of Governors--Member: Blanquita Walsh Cullum, to serve until 2005.  Cullum is host of the "BQ View," a nationally syndicated conservative radio program through Radio America. Cullum also currently serves as the President of the National Association of Radio Talk Show Hosts, and is the President and Founder of the Young American Broadcasters Program. Previously, she worked for the conservative America's Voice Television Network, and was appointed to the Virginia Commission for the Arts by Gov. George Allen. Broadcasting Board of Governors--Member: Steven J. Simmons, of Connecticut. to serve until August 13, 2003. FCC Commissioner: Kevin J. Martin, for a five-year term expiring 2006.  He was Special Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and was Deputy General Counsel for Bush for President.  Martin served at the FCC as Legal Advisor to Commissioner Furchtgott-Roth 1997-1999.  Graduate, U.N.C., Master's in Public Policy from Duke, Harvard Law.  Mr. Martin is married to Catherine Martin, Public Affairs Assistant to Vice President Cheney. FCC Commissioner: Kathleen Q. Abernathy, for the remainder of a term expiring 2005.  She was V.P. for Public Policy of BroadBand Office Communications, and was formerly the V.P. of Air Touch Communications 1993-1998.  She served at the FCC 1992-1993 as legal advisor to the Commissioner and as legal advisor to Chairman Quello.  She has served as an Adjunct Professor at Catholic U. Law School and Georgetown U. Law Center. FCC Commissioner: Michael J. Copps, appoiunted by President Bush to serve for the remainder of a five-year term expiring 2004.  He most recently served as President Clinton's Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Trade Development 1998-2001 and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Basic Industries under Clinton, 1993-1998.  From 1989-1993, he was Senior V.P. of the American Meat Institute and from 1985-1989 was Director of Government Affairs for Collins and Aikman.  Copps served for 15 years with Democrat Sen. Fritz Hollings (SC) in several positions including Chief of Staff.

Federal Elections Commission Chairman (FEC) Chairman: David M. Mason, also a member of the FEC Finance Committee.  Prior to his 1998 appointment, Mr. Mason was Senior Fellow in Congressional Studies at the Heritage Foundation.   He joined Heritage in 1990.  Previously, Mr. Mason served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, as a Legislative Assistant to Senator John Warner, Legislative Director to Rep. Tom Bliley, and Staff Director to then-House Republican Whip Trent Lott. He was active as a staffer and volunteer in numerous Congressional, Senate, Gubernatorial and Presidential campaigns, and was a Republican nominee for the Virginia House of Delegates in the 48th District in 1982. Lynchburg College in Virginia, Claremont McKenna College in California.  He is active in the home education movement. Vice Chairman: Karl J. Sandstrom FEC Commissioner: Ellen L. Weintraub, of Maryland, to serve until 2007, replacing Karl J. Sandstrom.  She was given a one year "recess appointment" on 12/6/02.  She was with Perkins Coie LLP in Washington, D.C. and previously served as Counsel for the U.S. House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct. Yale, Harvard Law. FEC Commissioner: Michael E. Toner, given a recess appointment in March 2002 after the Democrat Senate didn't act for political purposes, and to serve for the remainder of a term expiring in 2007 when confirmed.  Toner has been Chief Counsel to the Republican National Committee (RNC) and was General Counsel to the Bush/Cheney Transition and Bush/Cheney 2000. He was RNC Deputy Counsel, 1997-1999; and Counsel to the Dole/Kemp '96 campaign.  Associate with Wiley, Rein and Fielding in Washington, DC, 1992-1996. UVa, Johns Hopkins, and J. D. from Cornell Law. FEC Commissioner: Danny L. McDonald FEC Commissioner: Bradley A. Smith FEC Commissioner: Scott E. Thomas

FBI Director: Robert S. Mueller III, a U.S. attorney in San Francisco and previously a federal prosecutor in Washington and Boston. Mueller also served as acting deputy attorney general earlier this year and headed the Justice Department's criminal division under former President Bush.

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation - Chairman & Member, Board of Directors: Donald E. Powell, to serve for a term of six years and Chairman for a term of five years.  He was President and CEO of First National Bank in Amarillo, TX, and was formerly with the Boatman's First National Bank of Amarillo.  He was also Chairman of the Board of Regents for Texas A&M.

Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) See Homeland Security

Federal Housing Finance Board - Member: Franz Leichter, who served 30 years in the New York Legislature, has been re-appointed to a position on the Federal Housing Finance Board on which he already serves, having been appointed to the Board by Bill Clinton in 1999. According to the Swarthmore Bulletin, Leichter ‘exhibits pride when speaking of two legislative accomplishments that stand as bookends around his career. In 1970, a bill he introduced made New York the first state to legalize abortion. This was three years before the U.S. Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision and an extremely controversial move at the time - especially for a newcomer. "It was just the right thing to do," says Leichter of his pioneering effort.’ " Source: Republican National Coalition for Life FaxNotes, P.O. Box 618, Alton, IL 62002, 11/2/01

Federal Labor Relations Authority - Chairman: Dale Cabaniss.  She has been a member of the Federal Labor Relations Authority since 1997, and was on the staff at the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services and Education.  She was Chief Counsel for the Senate Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Post Office and Civil Service 1993-1996 and was a member of Sen. Frank Murkowski's staff 1984-1993.

Federal Railroad Administration - Administrator: Allan Rutter, who was Transportation Policy Director in the Texas Governor's Office since 1995 and was Deputy Executive Director of the Texas High-Speed Rail Authority 1990-1995.  He served under Texas Governors Mark White and William Clements as a Senior Budget Analyst 1985-1990.

Federal Reserve System - Member of the Board of Governors: Roger Walton Ferguson, Jr.  To serve until 2014 as a representative of the Boston Federal Reserve district.  Mr. Ferguson was appointed to the Board of Governors in 1997 by Bill Clinton and has served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Governors since 1999.  Graduate of Harvard and Harvard Law, Ph.D. in economics from Harvard.

Federal Trade Commission (FTC) - Commissioner: Timothy J. Muris, of Virginia, to serve for the term of seven years from 2001.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - Commissioner Nominee and Current Acting Commissioner: Dr. Andrew von Eschenbach, replacing Lester Crawford who resigned after indefinitely postponing nonprescription sales of "emergency contraception" (abortion pills) over the objections of FDA staff who had declared the pill "safe" (though not safe for a fetus). Von Eschenbach is an urologic surgeon and was chief academic officer of the University of Texas' Anderson Cancer Center before Director of the National Cancer Institute.  Was Crawford pushed out for opposing a new form of abortion?  Will his successor bow to the political correctness of unlimited abortions via any method?  America needs an FDA independent of the pharmaceutical and abortion industries.

General Services Agency (GSA) - Administrator: Lurita Alexis Doan, the founder and former president of New Technology Management Inc. of Reston, Va.  Her company held more than $200 million in federal contracts when she sold it in July 2005.

Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary: Mike Levitt, former Governor of Utah and most recently G.